Entry № 9076 · Arabic origin

Saira Saira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIRE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Traveller, princess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "traveller, princess".

Saira (سائرة) is an Arabic name meaning "traveller" or "wanderer" — from the root s-y-r, related to movement and journeying.

Saira is widely used across the Arab world, Pakistan, and the South Asian diaspora. Today it appears increasingly in Western records.

Traveller. A name with motion built in.

The name in its native script.

سائرة
Transliteration
Sāʾira
Pronunciation
/ ˈsaɪ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saira stands.

Saira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sairas before her.

Real people
Saira Banu
Indian actress, wife of Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar.
born 1944
In fiction

Names connected to Saira.

The number behind Saira.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saira reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.